The Gavelyte, May 1911

I ••• I l I'll~; I; AV ~~LY'l'l<~, 11pnt1 tlw 1·1,llt• • •: 1• r •pl p ·rlrnp lor gntnltn d1plnmll In IJ llt-;ll 1n.11 m n md \\\llll '11 . It nw~· Het' tn thnt. a c,1mp1n1•d tn tfw million lwing poun•cl intotlw Univl'r– ·itit•:-. tlw r11 nw iH h11nlly worth thl-' plnying hut thi!-1 i nm• of th· trnn point of lh1• plnn .' \l)!g1•. t •d . 1t iH ulmu 011 r Hize ut pn• Pn t. It om Pl hin~ h11 WP cnn h rndll'. I l IH n bl'J{1tming, 1111d itH ;ust hout th •r that mo11t thing t 1rt. If tlwn' 1s thP nght Hpmt among UH, 1l 111 ~oing to n•sult in th• tr •ngthing nf th, •c,lleg . lt may lw thnt you haVl' another plan. If 110, ou t with i ! Put i along side thi::i on and lets work th m both. Don ' t excm-1 your. elf on thi• ground that you have form cl new as:m ·iat 11, and that this impoH H on you nPw duties. Thi s is tru , of cours , but if I have to forg t my old fr1(>nds m onlt>r to make n w nn . I 'JI ca t in my lot with my Id on s. Wh n th(> Alumni A - s iation i about to b Rtir itself. it might be a good tim for othen1 who art• vitally interest din th college to do likewise. If it i up to anybody on earth to see that edarvill olleg is given a chance to grow, it is th community in whi h s he is situat~d. You hav a small school th re. It does not bring a great amount of money into the community. And yet I think, for the most part, the tudent faithfully keep in circulatlon such currency as may be entrusted to them. I was in Cedarville four years, and I do not think there were two days in all that time that the community did not have the use of every single cent that I could scrape up. And there were others just as public spirited, just as thot– ful. Occasionally an "undesirable citizen" lights for a brief stay, but in spite of all, you must admit that from every standpoint, the college has been one of the greatest blessings the community has ever enjoyed. You WILL admit it, if it ever ceases to exist. The community that has on its hands a college with a force of splendid in– structors, a fair equipment, a valuable property, an excellent and well arranged course, a college with a chance to live and grow and do a mighty work in the world, and who Jets that institution DIE has, it seems to me, committed the un– pardonable sin. I cannot see any reason under heaven for its existence after having missed so great an opportunity. Within six months, within a radius of 4 miles $10.000 could be raised and handed over to Cedarville College, and nobody would be a bit poorer, die a day younger, or loose a wink of sleep because of it. On the other hand everyone would be richer, everyone would live the better if not the longer for it, and sleep more soundly. And I would mi s my guess a Jong way if, in another six months, there were not another $10.000 to match it. If we will start this thing in dead earnest right at home we will double the en– dcwment of Cedarville College in two years. Then we would be able to pay our Instructors something for their work and give them an equipment that would enable them to carry out their plan. I believe the issue oul{ht to be forced RIGHT NOW. This is a critical time in the life of Cedarville College. I believe we are going to see it go forward with a decided step, or we are SOON goin2' to see it die, and become only a memory in the minds of but a few. I believe the time has come for the Alumni Association to declare it elf decidedly for or